IAEA: Iran accepts tough N-checks
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(CNN) -- Iran Saturday promised to give the International Atomic Energy Agency letters agreeing to tougher nuclear inspections and to suspend its uranium enrichment program, an IAEA official said.
Mark Gwozdecky, a spokesman for the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, told CNN that "it is very much in their interest to work with us. They claim that their program is peaceful. We're the best way for them to demonstrate that to the international community, through cooperating with us."
The tougher inspections would allow the IAEA to conduct environmental testing of the air and soil and to conduct tests in undeclared areas with short notice.
Inspectors would be able to fully account for all the nuclear material in the country and satisfy any questions regarding the use of uranium for a weapons program and not civilian use
Iran has been accused by the United States of working on nuclear weapons. Iran has denied all such accusations and said that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.
